Chris du Toit

Amazon plans CT call centre

Written on Jul 13, 2010 by cdutoit in Random

Johannesburg – The world’s largest online retailer Amazon said on Tuesday it plans to expand its customer service centre in Cape Town.
The investment is expected to create 1 000 new jobs as it bulks up the company’s existing presence.

Said Brent Jaye, director of Amazon’s North American customer service division: “It’s important to have customer service representatives available when it’s convenient for our customers.

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The retailer reported sales of about $7bn during the first quarter of 2010. Its local operations in South Africa are restricted to customer services, and do not include local shipping and currency for its retail services.

via fin24.com

Just a pity they won’t start shipping any of their products to SA. We still need to rely on a couple of local importers, all with huge profit margins to import their products. Maybe in future… we can dream can’t we?

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MWeb desperate for Seacom solution

Written on Jul 6, 2010 by cdutoit in Random

MWeb desperate for Seacom solution
http://www.techcentral.co.za/mweb-desperate-for-seacom-solution/15325/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+co%2FUqJF+%28TechCentral%29

As an interim measure MWeb says it was able to secure alternative capacity on Telkom’s Saix network from 5pm on Monday until 2pm on Tuesday. At that time, however, Telkom withdrew the capacity due to concerns over their bandwidth commitments it has made to Fifa for the soccer World Cup.

(via Instapaper)

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Quick YouTube Video Viewer test

Written on Jul 5, 2010 by cdutoit in Random

The video below should load in a “Shadowbox” frame.

BestFlights Video

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Blogging from the iPhone

Written on Dec 8, 2009 by Chris du Toit in Personal

I’m just quickly testing WordPress 2 for the iPhone to see how it will work as a blogging tool. The will enable me to update most of my sites from wherever I am.

This might just come in very handy next week when we’re at the beach.

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Andre Bachelors

Written on Nov 16, 2009 by Chris du Toit in Personal

Uiteindelik nog ‘n post op die blog!

Hier is ons by Andre se bachelors – het nogal geniet. Sal so paar videos hoeronder oplaai.

Video 1: Bedel Geld vir Spykers

Video 2: toets ‘n bed uit in Sheet Street

Video 3: Q&A Test

Video 4: Shopping in Mall

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Preschool Rugby Match

Written on May 26, 2009 by Chris du Toit in Personal

It was great to see my son (Alex) take part in his first rugby game against another team. He is in grade R (pre-school) and they just started learning how to play rugby this year. Below is a video clip of his team against the grade 1 team.

P.S. This was a great opportunity to test my new Canon HV40 camera – although it’s hard to see the actual quality on a website.

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Last.fm started charging for international users.

Written on May 5, 2009 by Chris du Toit in On my mind

Last.fm started offering free trails of their new paid radio station for users outside of the US, UK and Germany.

Now, $3 per month is not a lot of money, but to pay more to listen to internet radio that one does for a TV license is a bit rediculous. Especially if you only listen to last.fm about once or twice per month… I really enjoyed the service, but will not be paying yet another monthly fee for something like this.

I also found one alternative, although it has a weird interface, that seems to be able to play music according to your personal preferences. It’s called Grooveshark.

Anyways, if you have any other suggestions which are available in South Africa please let me know. That means no Pandora / Spotify (which looks like an excellent service once available locally).

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-04-17

Written on Apr 17, 2009 by Chris du Toit in Tweets

RT @mattsamuels: There is more to life than increasing its speed. Mahatma Ghandi <very true> #
RT @DazMSmith: SA has 4 courses in the Golf Digest Top 100 outside US ~ http://twurl.nl/gr4s4m ~ <that’s great news> #
RT @dollars5: Don’t Twitter and drive http://bit.ly/3bppbE #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-03-27

Written on Mar 27, 2009 by Chris du Toit in Tweets

Planning my very own ecommerce store that I own and control, not just promoting products as an affiliate. #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-03-20

Written on Mar 20, 2009 by Chris du Toit in Tweets

Boxee remote for iphone now available in App store, free: http://is.gd/nAxg #
Looking for affordable helm (windows) hosting with mysql database & good support. Any recommendations? #
Pathetic service / support from cyberservers dot net – 75 hours & still no reply to my support tickets. #
@Benin it was Stompernet’s Live 7 event in reply to Benin #
@jon_forge sounds like a great idea. We can discuss it next week. Thanks. in reply to jon_forge #
Relaxing at the Arabella Western Cape hotel & spa. Great hotel. Would recommend the African Rainforest treatment to guests. #
@markblomeley I live in South Africa, but I’ve just returned from Atlanta USA where i attended an internet marketing conference. in reply to markblomeley #

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